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Last Chance Mine

Past Producer in Powell county in Montana, United States with commodities Silver, Lead
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014736
MRDS ID D011646
Record type Site
Current site name Last Chance Mine
Alternate or previous names Christine Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.86341, 46.86656 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 3.3 KM W OF OGDEN MT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Powell(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nevada Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Elliston(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Blackfoot(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Powell

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 13N 10W 21 NE Montana

Comments on the location information

  • UP SLOPE FROM THE HIGGENS AND PLUTARE MINES. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1968

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Jasper Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Ogden Mountain Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Ogden Mountain Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.86341, 46.86656
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discoverer Best Brothers
Year of first production 1900

Mining district

District name Big Blackfoot (Ogden Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Ed Ellsworth

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINED SHAFT (CAVED), BULLDOZER CUT ON VEIN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STOUT, KOEHLER, 1949 MS THESIS, MT COL SCI MIN AND TECH

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1984 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

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